Louisiana “Pelican with Rays”

Belt Plate

Number

Description and Photograph

Price

OS-6233

The belt plate shown here is known as the Pelican with Rays for obvious
reasons. The typical Louisiana belt plate depicts a resting pelican with
folded wings feeding its young from the blood of its own breast. The
pelican in this pattern is still feeding its young from the blood of its
own breast, but its wings are up as if about to take flight. And, instead
of a plain background, it has distinctive rays emanating from it all
around.

The crisply die struck plate has a soldered on tongue and belt loop
bar and is extremely heavily gilted. It would have originally had two
small brass wire keeper hooks on the belt loop bar which are now missing.
With this exception, the plate is perfect.